fall-through

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noun fall-throughs · fallthrough

countable, uncountable In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected. It is a good idea to comment the (rare) cases in which a fall-through is intentional so that an uncommented fall-through can be assumed to be an error.

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@misc{fall_through_2026,
  title = {fall-through},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fall-through},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}